Stephen Browne
Stephen Browne is Director of the ICT for Development Group of the UN Development Programme, New York and Chairman of the Working Group 2, UN ICT Task Force. He joined the UN in 1976 in Thailand. He has spent some 16 years in fieldwork for the UN, including assignments in Thailand and Somalia, and - as UN Resident Coordinator - in Ukraine and Rwanda. In 1997, he established the Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP) in Malaysia. From 1999 he became Director of the Poverty Reduction Programme for UNDP and moved to his present position at the end of 2002.

Previous to joining the UN, he worked in the European Commission (Brussels) and the Economist Intelligence Unit in London. Mr. Browne was educated at Cambridge University where he graduated with an Economics degree and at the University of Paris, France where he obtained his pre-doctoral Diplôme d`études supérieures.

Richard Leete
Richard Leete is the UNDP Resident Representative and Resident Coordinator of UN Systems in Malaysia. Before joining UNDP Malaysia, he was the Chief of Population and Development Branch the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Prior to that he was an adviser at UN-ESCAP in Thailand and in the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) in Kuala Lumpur. He has written written several books, articles, other publications for governments and UNFPA.

Mr. Leete was educated at University of London and has Doctorate in Economics.

Datuk Amar Leo Moggie
Datuk Amar Leo Moggie is the Minister of Energy, Communications and Multimedia Malaysia. He began his career as a Civil Servant in the Sarawak State Civil Service in 1966. He was elected as Member of Parliament and Member of the Sarawak Legislative Assembly in 1974. Datuk Amar Leo Moggie first became Minister in 1976 when he was appointed Minister for Welfare Services, State Government of Sarawak. He was appointed the Minister of Local Government, State Government of Sarawak in 1977 for one year. Datuk Amar Leo Moggie became a Federal Minister in 1978, when he was made Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and Posts Malaysia. He became Minister of Works, Malaysia from 1989 to 1995, after which he was re-appointed as Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and Posts Malaysia. Since the Ministry was renamed Ministry of Energy, Communications and Multimedia in 1998, Datuk Amar Leo Moggie was re-appointed Minister of Energy, Communications and Multimedia in the new Cabinet line-up in 1999.

Datuk Amar Leo Moggie graduated with an Masters degree in History from the University of Otago, New Zealand and an Masters of Business Administration from the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Jose Maria Figueres Olsen
Jose Maria Figueres Olsen is Senior Managing Director of the World Economic Forum, Switzerland. He is also the Chairperson for the UN ICT Task Force and a member of the Board of Directors for the World Resources Institute (WRI). He was the Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Foreign Trade, President for San Cristobal Agroindustrial Group and General Manager for Fibers of Central America. He serves on the Dean's Alumni Leadership Council for Harvard's KSG.

Prior to joining the World Economic Forum, he was the President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. Jose Maria Figueres Olsen was educated at United States Military Academy where he graduated with an Engineering degree and at Harvard University where he obtained his MPA.